Sammy Sofa
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The City of Chicago was concerned about the rooftops and liability. There are several permits involved for each building and they are required to be inspected by a city building inspector three (or four?) times per year. The permits are expensive and unless they get approval they are not granted. This was the reason that the building down the left field line was empty for most of last season (failed inspections). The LLC's were started based on a suggestion from the Department of Revenue citing liability from the City's standpoint. For example, if a rooftop has a catastrophic failure and it crashed to the ground killing people, the city, by virtue of the permit and inspection process, would be liable for damages over and above what the building's insurance could cover. As a result of that exposure, the city requested that the liability insurance be set at a certain level. To limit the individual exposure to liability, LLC's were the logical arrangement. The permit/inspection process is one of the ways the city can put pressure on the rooftop owners (delaying inspections, failing inspections etc). Interesting. Thanks for clarifying.
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I thought I had read somewhere that at this point all of the rooftop buildings are owned by LLC's.
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Yeah, decent individual game prices, but we had to unfortunately downgrade because of the total cost. The ones we have now aren't bad; they're almost directly below last year's and back under the upper deck. Definitely would like to get back to where we were when things look more promising.
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The business acumen of the Ricketts as owners of a baseball team is simply breathtaking to watch.
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I believe season ticket holders can use the VIP Bleacher entrance and get in even earlier. That's even worse! You actually get to see the Cubs batting practice. Really not a thing that holds much appeal, especially when you have to be there insanely early to see them before the visiting team. Odds are you're either freezing or baking out there; no thanks.
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I believe season ticket holders can use the VIP Bleacher entrance and get in even earlier. That's even worse!
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Yeah, but I figure you'd have to be there pretty damn early to make sure you get the seats you want.
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Of the big chains I think Uno's (too dry and overcooked) and Lou Malnati's (too soupy/mushy) are worse. I just prefer Giordano's thin crust compared to them.
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I don't think I've ever eaten pizza at Wrigley, but kicking the vastly, vastly overrated D'Agostino's to the curb is fine by me. F Yeah. I don't care what anybody else says, I have to get Giordano's every time I return. Love the stuff, and have brought it back east dozens of times. It's definitely the one I prefer of the main chains here, though Pequod's is my personal favorite for deep dish.
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I don't think I've ever eaten pizza at Wrigley, but kicking the vastly, vastly overrated D'Agostino's to the curb is fine by me.
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That is a fantastic sell-job.
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What was Remlinger's ridiculous injury? Not "tripped over my dog" ridiculous, but didn't something bizarre happen to him? May be thinking of someone else Something about a folding chair in the clubhouse. Cut his finger or foot or something. I was thinking it was kicking an electric fan, but that was Farnsworth.
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I gave up after 3. But even with all the pages of texts that still not the full findings presumably, so might as well wait for the official report before I flip my thoughts one way or the other. The only stuff worth reading are the texts at the very end after Martin left the team (~10/31/13). The rest of it is bro's talking about going out and getting laid, even all the way up until a day or two before he left. The texts definitely paint Incognito in a completely different light although I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. I don't think Incognito was some kind of 24/7 monster; I'm sure there were tons of instances were he was trying to be the cool mentor/teammate and plenty of instances of Martin trying to fit in and get along with his teammates, as the texts show. But in no way do they show the entire picture, and the actions (or inactions) of the Dolphins over the course these seem to show there's plenty of fire to go along with the smoke. It's kind of ridiculous looking at the comments of those articles how it seems like a good 95% of the people commenting on the story thinks the texts completely vindicate Incognito and the Dolphins and totally destroy Martin.
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I totally see SSR's reasoning, but I can't agree with the bold at all. Maybe I'm just a big wet blanket but I find the bleachers totally miserable. The view of the game kinda sucks. You can't really lean back so you're kinda hunched forward uncomfortably the whole game. You have to worry about someone saving your seat when you get up to go the bathroom or buy beer or whatever. And I'm all about stupid drunken antics, but the level of such douchebaggery is tenfold there. I'm not saying there aren't fun aspects of it but the drawbacks are too much for me. Totally agree. I like doing the bleachers thing once or twice a season, but to have that be your seat option for every game? And even if someone loves the atmosphere I don't know how they could think they're the best seats; you can't see [expletive]. He DID say he's right out of college, so I guess that explains, but the old man side of me thinks that sounds like a nightmare.
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Charity-charity-charity. Selling your tickets is nigh-impossible past the first month or two, so this year we're donating a ton of them and basically writing them off.
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Does it? There's a humongous amount of context missing. Having a bunch of texts talking about partying and Incognito trying to be cool doesn't mean there wasn't tons of fucked up [expletive] happening. That, or now it sounds like they were having a beefy love affair.
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Who is the Cubs #13 Prospect?
Sammy Sofa replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Huh, so I guess MurtonFan got into making commercials after he vanished. Good for him.
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Just not a fan of big game blow outs unless it was my team unleashing the blow out.
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The only thing worse than this boring Super Bowl was the halftime reminder that heroin inexplicably spared Anthony Kiedis but robbed us of maybe the best actor working today.
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Offseason Rumors
Sammy Sofa replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Pure sweat-power.
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It's bonkers; it's this crazy, loopy thing that practically has a gully in the middle of it. HOW THE [expletive] DID ANYBODY THINK THAT WAS A GOOD THING.
